Oh, that's right---I hate Watermelon

I don't like watermelon. The taste, the texture, the smell, the seeds, how it drips down your chin when you eat it and makes your chin itch....yeah I don't like it, not even the artificial flavor. Yet every summer the lure of the children running around at the county fairgrounds with huge slices of watermelon in their hands and smiles on their faces makes me stand in line to get a piece for myself. The scenario is always the same, as I stare at my slice of melon I vaguely remember my dislike for this particular fruit, "But that was last summer," I say to myself, "This is a different fair so it must be a different batch of watermelon, everyone else is enjoying it so much it can't be that bad right?" WRONG, even on the first bite my taste buds remind me how much I hate it. As the juice runs down my chin onto my shirt and seeds fill up my mouth I curse myself for falling for the pink fruit once again and vow that next time I will be smarter. But here I sit, cursing myself because I have fallen once again for watermelon. I was positive this time was different, that watermelon wanted me back, wanted something more than just a summer fling. Everyone even encouraged me this time to try watermelon again, assuring me that they could see it working out, almost that we were made fore each other. So I risked it one more time, hoping, even praying that we could see it through. but watermelon rejected me, left me standing at the front of the line waiting for my slice of happiness but there was none to be found. My hopeless quest to like watermelon is finally over, I am done trying to confuse my senses into liking something that never works out. Although the journey was sometimes great, the watermelon ripe and seedless, in the end it was still watermelon and I still don't like it.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.

Sorry it has been forever since my last post, to be honest I totally forgot about it. Everyone else is way good at keeping up, but I have never been one of those kinds of people. So I just wanted to write about what me and Cynthia have been up to. Last week for the Insitute Lunch they had green eggs and ham in celebration for Dr. Seuss's birthday, well you know how much I love to dress up so me and Cynthia made Thing one and Thing two costumes to wear for lunch and then to wear for the preschoolers while we read "The Cat in the Hat" it was so much fun. It is something I want to do for my future classroom!

Last Week of School!!

How excited am I that school is almost done, pretty darn excited!! I think I am even more excited to have the semester finish than I was to have it start haha and that is saying something. Things are going good in life. I just got called as a ward Missionary, and the best part is my neighbor is my companion! I think this will be one of the best things to help me prepare for my mission. This year I am making a lot of my Christmas gifts, and they are actually turning out pretty good if I do say so myself (hopefully everyone else enjoys them as well!)

Grateful

With Thanksgiving next Thursday I just wanted to list a couple of things I am grateful for:
*My wonderful-fantastic-I couldn't have asked for a better Family
*The smell of rain
*Friends that forgive you when you have done something really stupid
*My mother, she is the very example of courage and faith
*When someone calls to say hello
*Grandparents--they rock!
*My wonderful state of Utah
*Scriptures
*Lazy days
*Scrapbooking to my hearts content
and
*Laughing till I cry :)

My best friend Late Night

So I have a best friend and his name is Late Night. We get together quite often, every night if we can. We watch movies, chat with people on facebook, scrapbook, do laundry and read together. He never tells me to go to bed, or that it is too late to do anything, he is always there. Whats wrong you say with my best friend -well he has a flaw. He is not friends with Morning. Now my life requires me to be friends with Morning which works out just fine if I have not hung out with Late Night during the week, but lately Late Night has been a really good friend. The hatred between the two is so strong that I have started to not like Mornings either and it is getting pretty crazy trying to please the two, impossible at some times. Any suggestions on how to ditch a friend (one that you have had for a very long time) to become best friends with one you don't care for? Anything will help--thanks all :)

Birthday Party

So it has been forever since I had my birthday party but I finally had a minute to sit down and post these pictures. It was so much fun to have everyone in costume, I encourage everyone to have a costume party at least once in their life! Enjoy :)

New post

It has been 3 weeks since my last post!! Wow, I guess it is time I write on this darn thing. For starters I am stressed out at the moment.....did I realize that midterms were coming, did I remember Halloween is in 2 weeks, have I forgotten that Christmas is right around the corner!@! Apparently!! I have been slacking on everything these past few weeks, I have not done my homework, my costume is still in my head waiting to be purchased and the snowfall just hit me on the head like a brick opening my eyes that i had better get it in gear. So here I go off to do some studying (I did get a 91% on my math test...so I am pretty proud about that), get my Halloween shopping done and start on my Christmas list (not what I want but what i am getting for everyone else). Oh, also on my mind is my visiting teaching needs to get done, I still have my room to clean, I really ( I mean really) want to scrapbook, and if someone on the lunch committee forgets to buy the pasta salad one more time I might just scream.